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AI’s “Existential Risk” is a Psy-Op (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

You still need to tell it to find targets. The existential risk they keep trying to sell us is that AI starts acting of its own accord. It really can not, to a significant degree anyway. You can give an agent really vague directions and maybe it'll choose to do something dangerous or illegal, but you can just kill the process at any point and it's done.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

    The definition of existential is that it's a threat to existence. It's already been used to murder innocent people.

    That's the definition of an existential risk.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    The definition of "existential risk" in question is specifically cult jargon for "could singlehandedly end human civilization and/or the entire species." Autonomous weapon systems, though horrifying and unconscionable, are just fine by most "x-risk" types as long as they're only used against enemies of the state instead of enemies of Skynet.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    Wut? No.

    You can absolutely give an AI access to all the phone records, including triangulated GPS positions of the phone, then have it calculate (hallucinations and all) which phones to target.

    Then it can trigger an autonomous drone to fly near it and shoot a hellfire missile or a 2,000 lb bomb at the GPS coordinates.

    This has already happened (killing children, whether hallucinations or intention) in Palestine and Iran.

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